Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 118

And then he told his wife about the old house, and the old man, and about the pewter soldier that he sent over to him because he was so very, very lonely; and he told it as correctly as it had really been, so that the tears came into the eyes of his young wife, on account of the old house and the old man.

Who acts: man, head, tears · What happens: tell, send over, be, come, account · To what, where: old man, wife, pewter soldier, boy, head, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, head, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 man	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 soldier	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 soldier	cc
18	about	about	ADP	_	21 soldier	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soldier	det
20	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soldier	amod
21	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sent	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soldier	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADV	_	24 sent	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	obl
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 lonely	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lonely	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lonely	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 lonely	advmod
32	very	very	ADV	_	35 lonely	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lonely	punct
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 lonely	advmod
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sent	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 told	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 told	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	obj
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 correctly	advmod
42	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	39 told	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 been	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 been	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 been	aux
46	really	really	ADV	_	47 been	advmod
47	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 told	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 came	punct
49	so	so	ADV	_	53 came	advmod
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 came	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 tears	det
52	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 came	nsubj
53	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 eyes	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 eyes	det
56	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 came	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 wife	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 wife	nmod:poss
59	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 wife	amod
60	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 eyes	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 account	punct
62	on	on	ADP	_	63 account	case
63	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 came	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	67 house	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 house	det
66	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 house	amod
67	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 account	nmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 man	cc
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 man	det
70	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 man	amod
71	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 house	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	the old man	man's wife		then	about the old house	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about house=Topic
2	send over	past	man	the pewter soldier	boy			over property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to he=Destination
3	is	past	man					lonely property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	man		head			correctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
5	be	past · perfect	head						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	the tears			the eyes of man's young wife		on account of the old house and the old man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
7	account			the old house and the old man					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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